DECEMBER 1, 2003
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A Publication of the Grand Ronde Tribe
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Restoration Celebration Is A lime For Remembering
Tribal people from all across the nation come to Grand Ronde and take part in the Tribes' Restoration event
at Spirit Mountain Casino on Saturday, November 22, 2003.
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Country Singer Crystal Gayle performed at the Tribes' Restoration Celebration.
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Former Congresswoman Elizabeth Furse was the Keynote speaker on Saturday.
0 Dinner, speakers mark 20 years since the end of
termination in 1983, but the memories 30 deeper than that
By Brent Merrill
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was a kid we
. flowers on the
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Grand Ronde Tribal Cemetery. My
mom would pick the big rhododen
drons out in our yard and we would
drive to Grand Ronde and cover the
graves of our people.
My mom would tell stories to us
on the way in the car about her
burgers on the way back listen
ing to my mom share the family his
tory in a traditional oral fashion
was a good time back in the day.
As Tribal members we all have
our memories. My memories are
just like your memories of Tribal life.
It is what makes us unique in this
world and what makes being part
of what is left of the ancestors of
the people that made up the Con-
Tribal Elder and former Tribal Chair Kathryn Harrison.
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Community of Oregon
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family and what life was like for
Tribal people her dad, my aunties
and uncles and my great grandma.
Although my brother and I were
quiet and respectful on the sacred
ground, the memories of that time
are not solemn. We were together
as a family and we stopped for
federated Tribes of Grand Ronde
our legacy as today's Tribal mem
bers. If you listened to the speakers at
this year's Restoration Celebration
on Saturday, November 22 at
Restoration continued on page 6